"My My Metrocard" by Le Tigre is also an excellent subway song.
No, it's shiny! I like to meet new people. They've all got stories...
Kaylee ,'Serenity'
Buffista Music III: The Search for Bach
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
Glamcookie - Jun 28, 2006 10:14:11 am PDT #3573 of 10003
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Polter-Cow - Jun 28, 2006 10:15:30 am PDT #3574 of 10003
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
"NYC" by Interpol, in which the subway is a porno.
Jon B. - Jun 28, 2006 10:16:58 am PDT #3575 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
The Jam's "Down in a Tube Station at Midnight". A song you definitely should not listen to if you're alone and uhhh... down in a tube station at midnight.
tina f. - Jun 28, 2006 2:41:36 pm PDT #3576 of 10003
Elliott Smith's "The Biggest Lie" which I always play when I'm waiting for the el and feeling melancholy. It starts: "I'm waiting for the train/The subway that only goes one way." Sad dude.
And my goodness, Happy Happy Birthday Hec! May your year be full of juicy Waits insights, no writers' block and lots of family joy!
Fred Pete - Jun 28, 2006 4:51:51 pm PDT #3577 of 10003
Ann, that's a ferret.
All this time, and nobody mentioned Petula Clark's (okay, Jimmy Webb wrote it) "Don't Sleep in the Subway, Darling"?
Jon B. - Jun 29, 2006 10:02:30 am PDT #3578 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Someone just offered me a bunch of codes each of which are good for downloading 30 songs off of iTunes. I'm thinking I should focus on iTunes "exclusives" since I have access to most other stuff via the radio station. What exclusives should I download?
tina f. - Jun 29, 2006 10:26:20 am PDT #3579 of 10003
A quick glance through the exclusive menu and I see The White Collar Boy EP (which is not listed as available on the Belle and Sebastian site so may actually be an exclusive) and... uhm, not much else. A remixed Sonic Youth single...
iTunes has a Mountain Goats EP that is only available in Australia right now called Babylon Springs. Whoa. Perusing the Mountain Goats selection tells me that the song "Cotton" was included on the soundtrack for that showtime series "Weeds." Go them!
That's not much help but there you have it.
Theodosia - Jun 29, 2006 10:27:48 am PDT #3580 of 10003
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Subway songs should also include "Thank You, Lord, For Sending Me the F Train" by Mike Doughty, and "Take the 'A' Train" by Duke Ellington
As well as "Charlie on the MTA" by the Weavers. How cool is it that the Boston subway system has its own folksong?
DavidS - Jun 29, 2006 10:42:12 am PDT #3581 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
How cool is it that the Boston subway system has its own folksong?
I've got one about the Green Line on a collection of songs about the 2004 Red Sox.
Tom Scola - Jun 29, 2006 10:58:55 am PDT #3582 of 10003
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
The MBTA is replacing tokens with "CharlieCards".